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of wealth, in ts commerce with the different parts of 
this, and other countries, arises from its fruit, perry, 
cyder, and hops. The former is now growing into an 
article of considerable consequence, and deserves par¬ 
ticular attention, more especially as the demand for it, 
in the large manufacturing towns of the north, and all 
the intermediate country, increasing yearly, promises 
a certain and ample recompense for the greatest exer¬ 
tions that can be made in this branch of its rural econo¬ 
my. Some idea may be formed, from the following 
circumstances, of the quantity exported, and the price 
it bears. The average tonnage of fruit sent by water 
into the north, for the last three years, amounts to 1500 
tons [in the year 1791 it exceeded 2094- tons], each 
ton weighing equal to fifteen horse pots, the measure 
by which it is commonly sold, making 22,500 pots. 
The pot holds about five pecks. , 
<c The fruit sold in Worcester market, is allowed to 
amount to (and the circumstance is fully confirmed by 
the rent given for the toll paid on it) 1000 pots per 
week, on an average of the last five months of the 
year. 
“ In ascertaining the value of the produce, as an ar¬ 
ticle of commerce, the two preceding months may be 
safely included; for though the number in these cer¬ 
tainly falls short of this estimate, the superior value of 
the early fruits will amply compensate for the defi¬ 
ciency. Seven months, or thirty weeks, at 1000 pots 
per week, give 30,000; supposing one-half of this 
quantity to be sent by water, and making part of the 
home consumption, there will remain 15,000 pots not 
accounted for in the estimate of the water carriage. 
Under these two heads, some part, the produce of 
Herefordshire, is included, perhaps an eighth of the 
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